Word: burdening
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...bloody eight year war with Iraq, and had backed Afghanistan's Northern Alliance against the Taliban and even came close to sending in its own troops in 1998. The U.S. has now disposed of two of Iran's most irksome regional enemies, but at the same time, the security burden inherited by Washington in both places has undermined its ability to apply similar pressure on that country...
...commonplace. Baghdadis live in permanent fear, locked for safety behind high walls and guarded gates in dreary isolation. Young girls don't go out, and even wives accompanied by their husbands rarely venture more than a few blocks. Inside the barricaded residences, life is a mix of boredom and burden as families cope with the aggravations caused by sporadic electricity, backed-up sewage and water that might come on only at 1 a.m. The interim Iraqi government that took power two weeks ago inherits a country desperate to alleviate the misery...
...took a glance at the mess. The former occupant of his position had taken the once proud program and mired it in mediocrity while engaging in wild financial mismanagement—a burden which fell upon the players to resolve in the form of checks made payable to Harvard University...
...enormity of the security challenge facing the new government is underscored every day - Wednesday's toll included ten killed by a car bomb near the government's headquarters in Baghdad, and the assassination of the governor of Mosul. And, of course, for now at least, the burden of the Iraqi government's security crisis is born primarily by U.S. forces...
...porn online has never been tougher. Even when you're trying to avoid it, sexually explicit material pops up everywhere, from mistyped URLs for popular sites to links embedded in instant messages. The Supreme Court decision last week to block enforcement of a rule that would have placed the burden of censorship on Web operators serves as a good reminder to parents to evaluate their family policy on what type of material is O.K. for their kids to view. While parental supervision is always a good idea, software filters can help...